Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrated, then, on the three short novels and five longer ones which are most congenial to his critical methods: "The Secret Sharer," "The Shadow Line," "Heart of Darkness," The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. The method involves three great concerns--for prose style, for narrative technique and for the psycho-mythical element. The combination is not as confining as it sounds; a closely argued and integrated discussion of the first five novels cited above on these three bases covers them with commendable through-ness. Indeed, the chapters on Nigger and Lord...
...placing ourselves within gun range of Communist China, which is certain to cause an incident that will plunge us into another war. I don't recall the Lord giving us the power to police a family fight between Communist China and the political corpse, Chiang Kaishek...
...looks like an Arabian king but talks like a professor of philosophy. His conversation, resounding and serious in any of four languages (Arabic, English, German, French), is punctuated methodically by the 1-2-3 and a-b-c of the lecturer. He is a Christian (Greek Orthodox), reads the Lord's Prayer and Creed regularly in Arabic at Sunday worship at his local church in Beirut, cons St. John Chrysostom for relaxation. His wife was formerly a teacher of literature at a Beirut women's college; they have one son, Habib...
...claim to be right is spiritually risky -"it leads into that typically Jewish prison of self-righteousness which Our Lord so often terribly rebuked." But we have no right to assume "that the Psalmists are deceived or lying when they assert that, as against their particular enemies at some particular moment, they are completely in the right. Their voices while they say so may grate harshly on our ear and suggest to us that they are an unamiable people. But ... to be wronged does not commonly make people amiable...
...rich in anecdotes that it becomes a series of unforgettable encounters. There are anecdotes in the grand manner-such as old Sarah marching into the law courts to forbid the sale of one of the Duke's presentation swords, crying: "Shall I suffer the sword which my lord would have carried to the gates of Paris to be sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes of the ' stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George...